In 1971 I was given the album "Blue" by Joni Mitchell in which she wished that she "had a river to skate away on" ; it matched my mood at the time. I followed her "For The Roses" the next year . Now, more than 40 years after those first albums, I bought a DVD called "Painting With Words And Music" (1998) . What a wonder! All those years are put together in a single concert.